On 12/21/07, Michael Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday, December 21, 2007, at 08:45AM, "Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >I've been in this same situation and lately I've grown tired of > >constantly updating Fedora systems that, at least on the surface, seem > >to work fine. Especially on servers, where users are using very few > >GUI programs, the update has no functional benefit. > > > >At the current time, I'm testing the longer-lived linux distributions > >on 2 machines. Since I like the RPM system, I stayed in that family. > >I've installed CentOS5 and Scientific Linux 5. Both are offshoots of > >RedHat Enterprise Linux. > > > >On a user workstation, I do not think I would recommend this strategy > >because those distributions lag quite horribly in the introduction of > >the "creature features" of the desktop. No Gnumeric, no inkscape, old > >R, old firefox, old thunderbird, and on and on. I started trying to > >keep track of the applications that I needed to build and or update > >for an SL5 system and it has been pretty time consuming. > > I actually have gnumeric/abiword and lots of other goodies built for CentOS - > > http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php Goddamnit. I have been repeating your work http://pj.freefaculty.oorg/ScientificLinux/5 Can you please share your mock confiig file to me? I can't fiind any docs on howto do that. > > That repo is primarily Fedora 8 packages rebuilt in mock for CentOS 5 > -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
